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Diagnostic performance of mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin as an analyte for the exclusion of left ventricular
Aims:
In ambulatory patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) we aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proADM) for the detection or exclusion of impaired left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
Methods And Results:
MR-proADM levels were measured in blood samples taken from 102 outpatients with CAD classified according to the New York Heart Association (NYHA) and Canadian Cardiovascular society (CCS) I-II. Increased levels of MR-proADM correlated with impaired LVEF (r=-0.21, p=0.046). The optimal threshold of MR-proADM for identification of impaired LVEF <50% was 0.54 nmol/L with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.64 (p=0.06). In univariate and multivariate calculation, MR-proADM >0.54 nmol/L remained associated with left ventricular dysfunction even after adjusting for age and gender. The negative predictive value (NPV) for MR-proADM
Conclusions:
We showed that MR-proADM is related to impaired LVEF. With an NPV of 88% MR-proADM might be a supportive tool to exclude negatively tested outpatients with CAD from further LVEF-diagnosis with moderate reliability.
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